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dan123
Recently had someone round to install a washing machine and they gave up due to a seized stopcock on the hot water supply. The new one was a cold-fill only so the hot pipe needed to be dealt with. The pipe comes down from the combi boiler, branches off to a horizontal pipe for the washing machine and then takes a 90deg turn into another horizontal section which connects to a flexi-hose and into the kitchen sink. So with little/no plumbing experience, i did some research and decided to take this one on myself as we needed the washing machine setup asap.
So i cut the dead stopcock off and capped the horizontal length with a pushfit.
My concern is the now redundant length of horizontal pipe which is capped, it seems like the perfect place for bacteria to build up and contaminate the sink's supply.
Is this a potential health risk? The capped section is about 10 inches long.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, i can take pictures if this explanation is unclear.
cheers,
-Dan
So i cut the dead stopcock off and capped the horizontal length with a pushfit.
My concern is the now redundant length of horizontal pipe which is capped, it seems like the perfect place for bacteria to build up and contaminate the sink's supply.
Is this a potential health risk? The capped section is about 10 inches long.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, i can take pictures if this explanation is unclear.
cheers,
-Dan
